AF management settings and diagnostic assessment
In patients assigned to rhythm control, AF was more often main reason
for the hospitalization (p <0.001). The rhythm control group
has significantly higher proportion of patients managed in academic
healthcare facility and treated by cardiologists than patients with rate
control (both p < 0.001). Patients with rate control had
significantly higher proportion of subjects having outpatient visit (p
<0.001) than those with rhythm control. Patients assigned to
rhythm control had more often blood tests and other diagnostic
assessment than patients with rate control (all p <0.001),
Table 3.