Acompanhamento farmacoterapêutico de pacientes diabéticos em farmácias comunitárias

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic non-communicable disease considered a serious and growing public health problem that affects a large part of the population and represents one of the biggest causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. The present study delimited as its theme the pharmacotherapeutic follow-up of diabetic patients in community pharmacies. The objective was to evaluate the adherence of diabetic patients to pharmacotherapeutic monitoring in community pharmacies, carrying out a literature review, exploratory as to its objectives, with a qualitative approach. For the selection of studies, publication periods were established between the years 2017 and 2021 in the Virtual Health Library, SciELO and Google Scholar databases. The descriptors were used: “Diabetes mellitus”, “Pharmacotherapeutic follow-up”, “Pharmacotherapy” and “Community pharmacies”. From the six selected studies, it was concluded that patients had good adherence to pharmacotherapeutic monitoring in community pharmacies and the positive impact of this service for diabetes control. In addition, the results supported the importance of the pharmacist in the dissemination of pharmacotherapeutic monitoring. It was possible to list the main problems related to drugs in the context of diabetes mellitus.