Most other U.S. states have similar initiatives, such as Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment. In New York state, the MOLST form is a New York State Department of Health form (DOH-5003). MOLST is for patients such as a terminally ill patient, whether or not treatment is provided.
Scale is most often used in architectural sketches, paintings, drawings and other artistic mediums. Artists create scales for drawings to correctly show the size relationship between objects. For example, an artist may decide that 1 inch is equivalent to 10 feet.
Scale is defined as the ratio of the distance on a map to the corresponding distance on the surface the map represents. Three forms of Scale: Verbal Scale: 1 inch equals 16 miles. This example tells us that 1 inch on the map represents 16 miles on the surface of the Earth.