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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">JOHS</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Journ of Health Scien</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of HealthCare Sciences</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Journ of Health Scien</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn>
      <issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">280</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.52533/JOHS.2024.40802</article-id>
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      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Allergy and Immunology</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Effectiveness of Integrating Palliative Care into Ambulatory Care of Non-cancer Terminally Ill Patients; A Systematic Review&#13;
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      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alzahrani</surname>
            <given-names>Saeed Yahya</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alghar</surname>
            <given-names>Hassan Yousef</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alshehri</surname>
            <given-names>Anwar Mohammed</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alshehry</surname>
            <given-names>Maied Zaher</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>5</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>8</issue>
      <fpage>260</fpage>
      <lpage>274</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p>
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      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>With the increase in the burden of chronic diseases, the need for and access to better healthcare is required to improve the quality of life of patients. Palliative care is an interdisciplinary specialization that aims to enhance the quality of life for individuals with serious life-limiting illnesses, regardless of their stage of disease, as well as caregivers. Integration of early palliative care into an ambulatory care setup can help improve the overall care experience for patients and their families while also addressing their unique physical, emotional, and psychosocial needs, and it ensures continuity of care throughout a patient__ampersandsign#39;s disease trajectory. We aim to conduct this systematic review to assess the impact of the incorporation of early palliative care for terminally ill non-cancer patients and describe the effectiveness of palliative care in terms of symptom control and management and overall quality of life. We have conducted both electronic and manual search strategies within the potential databases and included articles to find relevant studies. Studies from 2013-2023 were included. Original studies that recruited non-cancer terminally ill patients receiving palliative care in ambulatory care settings were included, while studies including pediatric patients (age less than 18 years) were excluded. Cochrane bias risk assessment tool was utilized to assess the quality of the studies. The final inclusion resulted in 10 studies. Integration of palliative care in ambulatory care settings improved the quality of life among patients and decreased their symptom burden and hospitalization rate. Few studies also reported improved survival times among their patient populations. Mean changes from baseline symptoms were reported. Integration of palliative care in ambulatory care shows promising results. Although to further improve patient-centered outcomes and consider patients__ampersandsign#39; perspectives on care delivery, more research is necessary to develop an empirical understanding of palliative care by recognizing and addressing the characteristics and implementation issues crucial to integrating these models in ambulatory care.&#13;
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      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>outcome</kwd>
        <kwd> palliative</kwd>
        <kwd> care</kwd>
        <kwd> ambulatory</kwd>
        <kwd> quality</kwd>
        <kwd> life</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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