How important is a multidisciplinary team in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus? An integrative review

Introduction: According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) 8.8% of the world population aged around 20 to 79 years (415 million people) lived with diabetes in 2015. There has been a growing increase in studies of different forms of management for the type 2 diabetes mellitus treatment. Objectives: to promote the development of skills of seeking theoretical resources that instruct health professionals in the knowledge of interdisciplinary care tools employed in the importance of a multidisciplinary team in the type 2 diabetes mellitus treatment. Materials and Methods: An integrative review was performed in June and July 2018, and the study inclusion period was from 2013 to 2018, in a single database, Pubmed. For the survey of the articles it was used the multidisciplinary team, diabetes type 2, management, all in English. Results: 52 articles were found, with only 17 articles selected to be read in their entirety. Conclusion: it was observed that there is no standardization or protocol defined on the multidisciplinary treatment of these patients, this is due to numerous difficulties that the disease itself brings, but it should be noted that in the studies evaluated, multidisciplinary treatment showed significant results in relation to those where there were individualized treatments.