Psychiatric wards in general hospitals - the opinions of psychiatrists employed there.

Objectives: The world literature is reporting economic destabilisation of psychiatric wards in general hospitals related to the new rules of financing (managed care). The aim of this paper is to analyse the literature on psychiatric wards in general hospitals, and to know the opinions of psychiatrists employed in these wards in Poland regarding organisational model and the stability of these wards.

Methods: The 18-items Likert-type questionnaire was send to 83 psychiatric wards in Poland and published on the website psychiatria.