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Twenty eligible studies were analyzed using thematic synthesis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Findings coalesced into 5 interdependent mechanisms rather than a list of isolated benefits. First, anticipatory, home-based symptom monitoring enabled rapid clinical response, reducing pain, breathlessness, and psychological distress while preserving quality of life despite functional decline. Second, care was structured to conserve patient dignity and autonomy, particularly for marginalized populations, by treating patient-defined goals of care as organizing principles rather than secondary considerations. Third, family caregivers functioned as a mediating variable: structured caregiver education and burden mitigation sustained home-monitoring vigilance that made early symptom detection possible. Fourth, task-sharing between specialist clinicians and trained community health workers or volunteers allowed monitoring and social support to scale without proportional increases in specialist staffing. Fifth, early, structured advance care planning functioned as a leading indicator that plausibly mediated downstream reductions in emergency visits, hospital readmissions, and intensive care unit utilization, with corresponding per-patient cost reductions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Community-based palliative care improves outcomes not simply because care is relocated to the home, but because the home is where clinical responsiveness, caregiver capacity, task-shared workforce models, and early care planning converge and reinforce one another. 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