COVID-19 ICU Patient Outcomes in France, February 2020 to June 2021

A nationwide cohort of 15,423 critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units in mainland France. The data, managed by Santé publique France, was used to investigate factors associated with mortality, severe ARDS, ICU-free days, and need for invasive ventilatory support across the first three pandemic periods. The dataset was authored by Antoine Journé and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling mortality risk based on patient age, sex, and pandemic period.
• Analyzing the association between obesity and severe ARDS or need for invasive respiratory support.
• Studying temporal trends in ICU resource use, such as intubation and ECMO, over different pandemic waves.
• Investigating sex-based disparities in COVID-19 outcomes among critically ill patients.

Strengths

• Nationwide scope covering all ICU admissions in mainland France.
• Includes 15,423 patient records with demographic details like age (mean 64.1 years) and sex (70% men).
• Covers three distinct pandemic periods from February 2020 to June 2021, enabling temporal analysis.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting open sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Row count for the underlying data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 25.6 KB, suggesting it may be a summary or supplementary document rather than the full patient-level data.

Provenance

Source

Santé publique France (national public health agency).

Collection Method

National surveillance data from ICU admissions.

Time Range

February 2020 to June 2021.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 05:36:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mainland France.