Table 7.

The top three association rules that our explanation ranking method produced for the seventh selected patient (patient 7). This patient satisfied conditions 1 and 2.

Rank	Association rule	Confidence of the rule			Commonality of the rule (n=1184), n (%)
		Total, n	Value, n (%)
1	The patient had ≥7 EDa visits related to asthma during the past year → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	51	39 (76.47)	39 (3.29)
2	The patient had between 17 and 27 asthma diagnoses during the past year AND the patient had no outpatient visit during the past year → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	48	28 (58.33)	28 (2.36)
3	The patient’s mean length of stay of an ED visit during the past year was between 0.025 and 0.205 day AND the patient had ≥3 ED visits during the past year AND the patient was prescribed ≥3 asthma relievers that are neither short-acting β-2 agonists nor systemic corticosteroids during the past year AND the patient was prescribed ≥4 systemic corticosteroids during the past year AND the patient is single → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	116	58 (50)	58 (4.9)

^aED: emergency department.