Managing patients of knee surgeries

A non-transitory computer readable medium with program code stored thereon that, when installed on a computer, causes the computer to perform the steps of:

• receiving patient input data indicative of activity desires or patient behaviour;
• performing a kinematic simulation by a simulator that simulates a result of a future knee operation of a patient to determine kinematic simulation data;
• evaluating by a processor of a computer system a statistical model to determine a predicted satisfaction value indicative of satisfaction of the patient with the future knee operation, the statistical model comprising:
• nodes stored on data memory representing the patient input data and the predicted satisfaction value and representing the kinematic simulation data and the patient input data indicative of activity desires or patient behaviour, and
• edges stored on data memory between the nodes representing conditional dependencies between the patient input data and the predicted satisfaction value,
• wherein each stored node is associated with a probability function that is configured to receive as an input of values for parent variables as defined by the stored edges, and is further configured to produce as an output a probability of a variable represented by that stored node;
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• generating an indication of the predicted satisfaction value.