Protocolos de cuidado farmacêutico para pacientes com diabetes: uma revisão sistemática de artigos clínicos

Abstract

Clinical protocols function as essential tools for the pharmacotherapeutic monitoring of people who mainly have chronic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus (DM). Pharmaceutical care aims to promote the rational use of medications by analyzing and verifying problems involving them, affecting a better quality of life for patients. Thus, the objective of this study was to identify existing clinical protocols of pharmaceutical care for patients with type 2 DM and to analyze the importance of the role of the pharmacist in successful adherence to the treatment of this disease. A search for publications from 2014 to 2024 was carried out in the PubMed/Medline, CAPES and Lilacs databases, with the descriptors: “Pharmaceutical Care”, “Protocol”, “Diabetes” and “Pharmaceutical Care”, “Intervention”. After the analysis, articles that were not fully available for reading or in other languages that would not be accepted by the research proposal were excluded, leaving a total of 11 articles. It can be observed from this review that the pharmaceutical professional who provides care to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, with the help of a clinical care protocol, stimulated an improvement in patient adherence to the treatment of this disease in most of the studies developed. These results reaffirm the relevance of applying care protocols in pharmaceutical practice to improve the quality of life of patients.