The National Postmortem Network has proven to be an indispensable research platform during the pandemic. Today, it has become a sustainable infrastructure that unites over 90% of German university hospitals, records thousands of post-mortem data sets and information on tens of thousands of post-mortem samples and has already produced more than 180 scientific publications.
From crisis mode to standard structure: NATON now stands for Pandemic Preparedness and for post-mortem research that goes far beyond COVID-19 - modules are being prepared in the post-mortem registry on other infectious diseases, drug reactions, tumour diseases and sudden cardiac death.
Find out more in our current lead article by Allgoewer et al. in the journal Rechtsmedizin (Springer).