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Table 3 Feature importance analysis

From: Machine learning algorithm for early detection of end-stage renal disease

Feature

Feature importance

Age

0.030

CKD stage

0.018

Hypertensive crisis events per year

0.016

Recently diagnosed hypertension

0.013

Total drug prescriptions per year

0.010

Total cost of outpatient specialist visits per year

0.007

Annual medication costs

0.006

Hypertensive nephropathy

0.006

Recently diagnosed hyperlipidemia

0.006

Time gap between last CKD stage diagnosis to most recent

0.004

Number of urinalysis tests per year

0.004

Ever diagnosis of hypertension

0.004

Total cost of ER and inpatient visits per year

0.003

Total annual claims costs

0.003

Acute kidney injury events per year

0.002

Anemia of CKD

0.002

Recently diagnosed diabetes

0.002

  1. This analysis performed on the final trained model demonstrated age to be the most important differentiating factor, followed by the highest CKD stage diagnosed during the eligibility period, the annual count of hypertensive crisis diagnoses, and the presence of newly diagnosed (in the past year) hypertension