A patient in a hospital is frustrated at the inconvenience of having to collect his urine for an entire day and night as part of an ordered 24-hour urine collection test. He asks the nurse why the test is necessary since he provided a single urine sample 2 days ago. How could the nurse best respond to the patient's question?
A) "A single urine sample lets your care team determine if there are bacteria in your urine, but other tests of urine chemistry need a longer-term view."
B) "Current lab tests aren't able to detect the small quantities of most substances contained in a single urine sample.
C) "Only a longer-term test is able to show whether your kidneys are letting sugar spill out into your urine."
D) "Often why an abnormal substance shows up in urine test, a 24-hour urine collection is needed to determine exactly how much it is present in your urine."

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Twenty-four-hour urine tests are often used to quantify the amount of substances, such as proteins, that an individual's kidneys are spilling. Single urine samples are able to assess more parameters than just the presence of bacteria, and they are sufficient in quantity to detect numerous substances such as glucose.

A Patient in a Hospital Is Frustrated at the Inconvenience