For all participating hospitals the use of mechanical
restraint and seclusion among patients with an F2 ICD-10
diagnosis was analysed for the one-year period of 2004.
To analyse the data of the German hospitals, an Access
programme called "Documentation of Coercive measures
in Psychiatry" (DoComP) was generated specifically for
this purpose. This programme evaluates hospital-based
indicators in the respective ICD-10 principal group (F0–
F9). Due to prescriptions of data protection in Germany
the data of patients exposed to coercive measures was
recorded anonymously and did only include information
on the patients' date of birth, gender, date of admission
and ICD-10 diagnosis (F0–F9). The programme identifies
two records of coercive measures as belonging to the same
case, if date of birth, gender and date of admission are
identical.