%0 Journal Article %T A multivariate investigation into the relationship between pharmaceutical characteristics and patient preferences of bioequivalent ibuprofen tablets %A Adrianna Gagol %A Alfredo Garcia-Arieta %A Antonio Matji %A Dolores R Serrano %A Juan J Torrado %A Maximilian Scherer %A Santiago Torrado-Santiago %A Tatiana R Alonso %J Archive of "Patient preference and adherence". %D 2018 %R 10.2147/PPA.S174479 %X In Spain the price of all ibuprofen 600 mg tablet generic products is the same due to reimbursement existing rules so for the patient there is not any economic incentive to choose a particular one. Bearing in mind that the quality of generic products should be similar, it could be questioned if differences in patient preferences evaluated as sales could be related to differences on their pharmaceutical properties. The aims of this work were to study the variability on the pharmaceutical characteristics of marketed bioequivalent tablet formulations and its impact on patient preferences %K ibuprofen %K sales %K disintegration %K generic %K multiple linear regression analysis %K multivariate analysis %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163020/