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Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Open Access Primary care patients in psychiatric clinical trials: a pilot study using videoconferencing 1,2 1 3 1 Janet BW Williams* , Amy Ellis , Arthur Middleton and Kenneth A Kobak Address: 1MedAvante, Inc., MedAvante Research Institute, Hamilton, NJ, USA, 2Columbia University, Dept. of Psychiatry, New York, NY, USA and 3Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, USA Email: Janet BW Williams* - jwilliams@; Amy Ellis - aellis@; Arthur Middleton - amiddleton@; Kenneth A Kobak - kkobak@ * Corresponding author Published: 4 October 2007 Received: 26 July 2007 Accepted: 4 October 2007 Annals of General Psychiatry 2007, 6:24 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-6-24 This article is available from: /content/6/1/24 © 2007 Williams et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: While primary care physicians play a pivotal role in the treatment of depression, collaboration between primary care and psychiatry in clinical research has been limited. Primary care settings provide unique opportunities to improve the methodology of psychiatric clinical trials, by providing