Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy (SMART) with Inhaled Budesonide-Formoterol Combination, Conventional Budesonide and Additional As-Needed Levo-Salbutamol, in Children with Persistent Bronchial Asthma

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