PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mina K. Chung
TI  - Atrial fibrillation: Rate control is as good as rhythm control for some, but not all
DP  - 2003 Jun 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 567--573
VI  - 70
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/70/6/567.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/70/6/567.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2003 Jun 01; 70
AB  - Four recent trials compared the strategies of rate control vs rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation. All of them found a rate control strategy to be equivalent to a rhythm control strategy in terms of primary outcomes, but the findings may not apply equally to all patients.