RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Atrial fibrillation: Rate control is as good as rhythm control for some, but not all
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 567
OP 573
VO 70
IS 6
A1 Chung, Mina K.
YR 2003
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/70/6/567.abstract
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.