Table 8.

The top three association rules that our explanation ranking method produced for the eighth selected patient (patient 8). This patient satisfied condition 5.

Rank	Association rule	Confidence of the rule			Commonality of the rule (n=1184), n (%)
		Total, n	Value, n (%)
1	The patient had between 9 and 17 primary or principal asthma diagnoses during the past year AND the patient was prescribed asthma medications ≥16 times during the past year AND the patient had no outpatient visit to the primary care provider during the past year AND the patient is not a White patient → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or EDa visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	87	45 (51.72)	45 (3.8)
2	For the patient’s most recent visit, the time from making the request to the actual visit was ≤0.6 day AND the patient was prescribed asthma medications ≥16 times during the past year AND the patient is a Black or an African American patient AND the patient’s first encounter related to asthma was from ≥1 year ago AND the patient’s lowest SpO2b level during the past year was between 94.5% and 95.5% → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	19	12 (63.16)	12 (1.01)
3	The patient was prescribed ≥12 distinct asthma medications during the past year AND the patient had ≥12 encounters during the past year AND the patient’s most recent outpatient visit related to asthma was from ≤104 days ago AND the patient had ≤82 laboratory tests during the past year AND the patient is not a White patient → The patient will likely have ≥1 inpatient stay or ED visit for asthma in the succeeding 12 months.	19	12 (63.16)	12 (1.01)

^aED: emergency department.

^bSpO₂: peripheral capillary oxygen saturation.