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But validated and interpretable models for forecasting 90-day COPD\/PHD-related readmission among such individuals remain scarce.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This retrospective two-center study recruited \u2265 65-year-old patients developing COPD and concurrent PHD from Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College (development cohort) as well as Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of Dazhou City (external validation cohort). Candidate predictors were selected from pre-discharge routine data during index hospitalization, encompassing demographics, comorbidities, laboratory tests during the first 24\u202fh post-admission, primary transthoracic echocardiographic parameters obtained during index hospitalization, and in-hospital non-invasive ventilation (NIV) use. We excluded troponin T and procalcitonin out of analysis because of massive missingness. We utilized multiple imputation for processing other missing data via chained equations. LASSO logistic regression was carried out for predictor selection by 10-fold cross-validation. Five models, consisting of logistic regression (LR), XGBoost, linear support vector machine, naive Bayes, and decision tree, were constructed, followed by performance comparison. Following calibration of model probabilities, the threshold acquired based on the development cohort was applied in internal bootstrap and external validation. Additionally, model performance was evaluated by calculating area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC), accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, as well as Brier score. At last, SHAP analysis and nomogram development were used for the final model.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>There were altogether 588 patients enrolled, involving 433 and 155 in the development and external validation cohorts separately. XGBoost had the best apparent performance in the development cohort, however, LR showed the highest external discrimination (AUC 0.825) and stable calibration for 90-day COPD\/PHD-related readmission. The SHAP analysis-identified predictors were TRVmax, frequent exacerbations, and NIV use.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>LR demonstrates the highest robustness and generalizability in terms of its performance, meanwhile, it maintains its clinical interpretability and transparency. 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