The effects of rhythm control strategies versus rate control strategies for atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter: A systematic review with meta-analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis

The Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke

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Evidence-based clinical practice: Overview of threats to the validity of evidence and how to minimise them

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Atrial flutter: Clinical risk factors and adverse outcomes in the Framingham Heart Study

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Rate Control versus Rhythm Control for Atrial Fibrillation after Cardiac Surgery

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False-positive findings in Cochrane meta-analyses with and without application of trial sequential analysis: an empirical review

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Atrial fibrillation and risks of cardiovascular disease, renal disease, and death: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Total endoscopic ablation of patients with long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation: a randomized controlled study

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Atrial fibrillation and risks of cardiovascular disease, renal disease, and death: systematic review and meta-analysis

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New-onset versus prior history of atrial fibrillation: Outcomes from the AFFIRM trial

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Systematic Reviews of Anesthesiologic Interventions Reported as Statistically Significant

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HOW WELL ARE RATE OR RHYTHM CONTROL ACHIEVED IN RAFT-AF PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND HEART FAILURE?

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Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2016 Update

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Rate- and Rhythm-Control Therapies in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

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Thresholds for statistical and clinical significance in systematic reviews with meta-analytic methods

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A Pilot Study to Assess Benefit of Atrial Rhythm Control after Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and Atrioventricular Node Ablation

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Comparison of the rhythm control treatment strategy versus the rate control strategy in patients with permanent or long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation and heart failure treated with cardiac resynchronization therapy - a pilot study of Cardiac Resynchronization in Atrial Fibrillation Trial (Pilot-CRAfT): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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Improving outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation: Rationale and design of the Early treatment of Atrial fibrillation for Stroke prevention Trial

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Rate-control versus Rhythm-control Strategies and Outcomes in Septuagenarians with Atrial Fibrillation

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Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

(2013) David Moher   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Influence of Reported Study Design Characteristics on Intervention Effect Estimates From Randomized, Controlled Trials

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SPIRIT 2013 Statement: Defining Standard Protocol Items for Clinical Trials

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What Should be the Primary Treatment in Atrial Fibrillation: Ventricular Rate Control or Sinus Rhythm Control with Long-term Anticoagulation?

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A Randomized Trial to Assess Catheter Ablation Versus Rate Control in the Management of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure

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Rate versus rhythm control in atrial fibrillation and clinical outcomes: Updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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Comparative Effectiveness of Rhythm Control vs Rate Control Drug Treatment Effect on Mortality in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

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2012 focused update of the ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation

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Quality of Life and Functional Capacity in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Congestive Heart Failure

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Pharmacologic Rate versus Rhythm-Control Strategies in Atrial Fibrillation: An Updated Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis

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Rate vs. rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation — An updated meta-analysis of 10 randomized controlled trials

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Real-Life Observations of Clinical Outcomes With Rhythm- and Rate-Control Therapies for Atrial Fibrillation

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Evidence at a glance: error matrix approach for overviewing available evidence

(2010) Frederik Keus et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Radiofrequency ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation in patients with advanced heart failure and severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction: a randomised controlled trial

(2010) M. R. MacDonald et al.   HEART

Sinus rhythm is associated with fewer heart failure symptoms: Insights from the AFFIRM trial

(2010) Maya Guglin et al.   HEART RHYTHM

GRADE guidelines: A new series of articles in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

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Maintenance of Sinus Rhythm and Survival in Patients With Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation

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CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomised Trials

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AS-270: Comparison of Rate Versus Rhythm Control After Percutaneous Transluminal Mitral Commissurotomy in Patients with Chronic Atrial Fibrillation: A Prospective Randomized Comparative Study

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Estimating required information size by quantifying diversity in random-effects model meta-analyses

(2009) Jørn Wetterslev et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Optimal Treatment Strategy for Patients With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

(2009) Satoshi Ogawa et al.   CIRCULATION JOURNAL

A randomised, controlled study of rate versus rhythm control in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation and heart failure: (CAFE-II Study)

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Comparison of Rate and Rhythm Control in Hypertension Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

(2008) Ahmet Yildiz et al.   CIRCULATION JOURNAL

Can trial sequential monitoring boundaries reduce spurious inferences from meta-analyses?

(2008) Kristian Thorlund et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Apparently conclusive meta-analyses may be inconclusive—Trial sequential analysis adjustment of random error risk due to repetitive testing of accumulating data in apparently conclusive neonatal meta-analyses

(2008) Jesper Brok et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Trial sequential analysis reveals insufficient information size and potentially false positive results in many meta-analyses

(2008) Jesper Brok et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Pulmonary-Vein Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Heart Failure

(2008) Mohammed N. Khan et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Rhythm Control versus Rate Control for Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure

(2008) Denis Roy et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study

(2008) Lesley Wood et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

(2008) Gordon H Guyatt et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Trial sequential analysis may establish when firm evidence is reached in cumulative meta-analysis

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