Table 3. Incidence of adverse events in all hospitalized patients with atrial fibrillation according to whether or not catheter ablation was performed.
| Overall (n = 597,919) | Non-ablation (n = 539,936) | Ablation (n = 57,983) | P-value | |
| Data are presented as n (%). | ||||
| Tamponade requiring intervention | 1009 (0.2%) | 692 (0.1%) | 317 (0.6%) | < 0.001 |
| All-cause death | 6960 (1.2%) | 6922 (1.3%) | 38 (0.1%) | < 0.001 |