What EDCritix is for
EDCritix is a current-awareness tool for emergency medicine reading. It helps clinicians notice potentially relevant papers, guidelines, consensus updates, and FOAMed analysis without scanning every source manually.
Methods
How EDCritix turns a source scan into a clinical reading queue
The site is intentionally transparent about source coverage, ranking labels, and limitations so first-time readers can judge whether a signal deserves their time.
How items are ranked
Ranking prioritises emergency medicine relevance, potential practice impact, recency, source quality, and whether the item has a clear bedside or systems implication. The result is a reading queue, not a guideline.
How summaries should be used
Summaries and takeaways are designed to help decide whether to open the original source. The original article, local policy, and clinical judgment remain authoritative.
Known limitations
Some items are summarised from abstract and metadata layers rather than full text. AI-assisted synthesis can miss nuance or produce malformed details, so clinically important claims should be checked against the source.
Ranking labels
Practice-changing
Read first. Potentially important for bedside care or departmental process.
High-yield
Worth scanning soon because the topic is common, consequential, or operationally useful.
Worth watching
Interesting signal that may need corroboration or is less immediately actionable.
Background
Useful context, lower immediate practice signal.