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there is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. however, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. in this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

This paper deals with the relationship between intelligent behaviour, on the one hand, and the mental qualities needed to produce it, on the other. We consider two well-known opposing positions on this issue: one due to Alan Turing and one due to John Searle (via the Chinese Room). In particular, we argue against Searle, showing that his answer to the so-called System Reply does not work. The a...

The search for ideal predictors of successful extubation or “liberation” from mechanical ventilation has been a subject of constant investigation for over half a century. Initial investigations were spurred by the need to determine adequate reversal of paralytic agents after general anesthesia, sufficient to allow sustained spontaneous ventilation and permit extubation.1,2 It is notable that th...