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My name is... [in several languages] [music] >>Narrator: In October 1993 approximately eighty like-minded individuals working in health care around the world gathered at the Summertown Pavilion on Middle Way in Oxford, UK. >>Chalmers: We wrote as late as July inviting people to come to what we called a first colloquium in October. And we didn't promise them any travel. We said we'd give them sandwiches and coffee but that was it. They'd have to find the funds. And they came from all over the world. >>Garner: It was organised in quite a rush and there was a lot of people from all over the place, not quite knowing what it was, what it was all about, but all anxious to move forward and it was a very energising and powerful meeting. >>Narrator: For two days the group discussed how they should organise the working structure for what would become The Cochrane Collaboration - an international effort to improve health care by finding and promoting the best possible scientific evidence. [m