Crosswords
September 2008 Crossword Puzzle
Monday, September 1, 2008
PTINR.com Staff
September brings no. 2 pencils, school buses and your monthly crossword puzzle.
Across
4 Holiday honoring the work force
6 Leading side effect of warfarin (Coumadin ®)
8 Brand name for warfarin
9 Testing frequency paid by Medicare and most private insurance companies
10 Home testing patients have a small drop of blood from here for testing
13 Patients taking warfarin ask about this the most
15 Not external
16 Hidden source of vitamin K
18 Patient self testing improves this over their warfarin
19 Number of strengths of warfarin
20 Major risk factor for people over 65
21 Too much warfarin increases your risk of this
24 Bleeding under the skin
25 Key to patient success eating leafy green foods
Down
1 Too little warfarin increases your risk of this
2 September begins this busy season
3 May contain high vitamin K content
5 Where patients self test
7 Generic name for brand Coumadin
11 Weekly testing results in more ___ INR test results
12 Snow bird patients travel to these climates
14 International Normalized Ratio abb.
17 Large amounts of foods with vitamin K can ________ an INR test result
18 Some patients go here for their warfarin management
20 QAS offers ___ shipping
22 Quality Assured Services - company that provides patients home monitors
23 Patient self testing abbreviation