In our models, greater deciles of age over 50, diagnoses of COPD and CHF, and laboratory abnormalities in serum alkaline phosphatase, hematocrit, and albumin contributed the highest risk score weights for mortality, while ICD‐10 diagnoses of encounter for screening for malignant neoplasms, and vasomotor or allergic rhinitis were associated with lower risk of death. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and cancer.