IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/wpaper/hal-04977861.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Performance Analysis of Regional French Hospitals Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author

Listed:
  • Estelle Guenifo Garner Coulibali

    (MRE - Montpellier Recherche en Economie - UM - Université de Montpellier)

  • Frédy Pokou

    (CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 - Centrale Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jules Sadefo Kamdem

    (MRE - Montpellier Recherche en Economie - UM - Université de Montpellier)

Abstract

This study assesses the efficiency of French regional hospitals (excluding DOM-TOM and Corsica) from 2018 to 2021, distinguishing the prepandemic (2018-2019) and pandemic (2020-2021) periods using data envelope analysis (DEA). Two models were developed: one minimizing deaths as an adverse outcome, and the other incorporating both deaths and emergency admissions to capture the pressure on hospitals based on data on hospital beds, doctors, and nurses. The results reveal significant regional disparities in healthcare care efficiency. Île-de-France and Centre-Val de Loire consistently performed well, while Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and Occitanie showed persistent inefficiencies. Interestingly, Grand Est, despite being heavily impacted, demonstrated high efficiency, suggesting adaptations driven by the crisis. Some resource-rich regions performed poorly due to organizational issues such as low bed turnover and poor hospital occupancy. These findings highlight the need for targeted reforms in resource allocation, interregional coordination, and hospital infrastructure planning. Limitations include data inconsistencies between regions and the lack of differentiation between pandemic waves. Future studies could refine these insights by analyzing temporal variations with more precision.

Suggested Citation

  • Estelle Guenifo Garner Coulibali & Frédy Pokou & Jules Sadefo Kamdem, 2025. "Performance Analysis of Regional French Hospitals Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic," Working Papers hal-04977861, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-04977861
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-04977861v1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hal.science/hal-04977861v1/document
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-04977861. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.