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.