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We aimed to identify a diagnostic model that distinguishes patients with axSpA from patients without axSpA with chronic back pain based on clinical data in routine care.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Clinical data from patients with chronic back pain were used, with information on rheumatological examinations based on clinical indications. The total dataset was randomly divided into training and test datasets at a 7:3 ratio. A machine learning-based model was built to distinguish axSpA from non-axSpA using the random forest algorithm. Overall accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve-area under the curve (ROC-AUC) in the test dataset were calculated. The contribution of each variable to the accuracy of the model was assessed.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Data from 939 randomly selected patients were available: 659 diagnosed with axSpA and 280 with non-axSpA. In the test dataset, the model reached an accuracy of 0.9234, a sensitivity of 0.9586, a specificity of 0.8438 and a ROC-AUC of 0.9717. Human leucocyte antigen B27 (HLA-B27) contributed most to the accuracy of the model; that is, the accuracy would suffer most from not using HLA-B27, followed by insidious onset of back pain and erosions in the sacroiliac joint.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We provide a machine learning-based model that reveals high performance in diagnosing patients with chronic back pain with axSpA versus without axSpA based on information from a tertiary rheumatology practice. 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