When would you recommend prescribing an asthmatic patient budesonide/salbutamol rather than budesonide/formoterol?  

This is another example of two approaches to the same issue (i.e. adding inhaled steroid to a rescue B2 adrenergic agent) which is actually more theoretical than practical since no head-to-head studies have been reported. For me, there is an intrinsic value to using a rapid onset LABA (i.e. formote...